Twitter in hiring mode, many openings for software engineers

NEW YORK: Popular micro-blogging site Twitter is expanding headcount and has many openings for software engineers.

Twitter is looking to hire people for as many as 27 key positions in the company, which had started operating from a garage in 2006.

Twitter has sprang on popularity charts with a number of celebrities, including Britney Spears, India's Shah Rukh Khan and US daily The New York Times using the service and scores of people using it for dissemination of information.

It is looking for people in areas right from software engineering to product and technical operations; administrative department to managing media services to take the company to the next level of growth.

"We are a hard-working team looking for a few key people to help take us to the next level," Twitter said on its website.

The company, as per information available with its website in April last year, has about 120 employees.

Twitter offers micro-blogging which allows users to send short text messages, among others, on various multimedia platforms.

The net working site is searching for 13 people for software engineering positions, which includes four vacancies for monetisation, four at IT and website operations and two each at business development and administrative departments.

In addition, Twitter is looking at one each for the post of data analyst and interaction designer among others.

"Twitter is looking for new members of our technical staff to work on cutting edge monetisation projects," the company said.

In April, the company had opened vacancies for as many as 13 people, most them were for the post of software engineers.